He could see it easily enough. This was going to upset her and there was very little he could do about it.

"I'm really not looking for anyone. And if I was, I don't think we're right for each other." Not that a guy without his own heart in the first place can have any idea of what kind of person would be right for him in a romantic sense, but that was a detail that didn't need to come into this. And it didn't make him feel any better about this whole thing.